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Does anyone know why PD 9 doesn't allow selecting both x.v.Color and enable hardware video encoder when burning to Blu-ray/AVCHD disk or burning to folder?

Likewise in the produce tab. My only suggestion is that GPU encoding doesn't support x.v.Color at this time. Did you record the original footage in xvYYC colour to start with? If not, there is no real advantage as far as I can tell from my reading.

Out of interest: My Pana TM700 is xvYYC capable as is my Media player and LCD so I did a few tests. I personally found the extended colour gamut produced greyer blacks and some over vivid colours. Not sure whether it was just the Samsung LCD going overboard with contrast and brightness which I was unable to adjust via the menu when xvYYC was activated. Anyway I gave up as it looked worse anyway. Panasonic SD9, Panasonic TM700, Panasonic SD600, GoPro HD Hero.

Yes, the original footage is 1080i AVCHD with x.v.Color. PD 8 permitted the selection of both but PD 9 doesn't.

Quote: Yes, the original footage is 1080i AVCHD with x.v.Color. PD 8 permitted the selection of both but PD 9 doesn't.

I can at least confirm this on my system. I couldn't select XV color and HA at the same time in both Produce and Create Blu-Ray disc.

I don't use xv color so I had to enable it in my camera to test it.

Regards,

Kevin
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